NOVEL NEXT Chapter 47: F Rank Advancement
Mila
Congratulations!
Your Law Egg of Obfuscation has advanced to peak grade.
Your soul is affected by your understanding of Laws.
Agility + 8, Perception + 8, Magic +16, Spirit +8, Soul +8
After using her Law Egg of Obfuscation in the chase, all Mila needed was a little meditation to raise it to peak grade, and she felt very, very proud as it was the first time it had advanced without her feeling inferior to Aalam.
“Are you sure your Law advancement has nothing to do with Aalam easily restraining those beastmen you stood no chance against?” Nana Xara cut in and Mila’s happiness faded.
“You couldn’t just let me have a moment?”
“Complacency is the mother of regret. And it is both my joy and responsibility as your master to make sure you don’t grow full of yourself.”
Mila decided to stop engaging before things got worse for her and instead started the process of advancing to F rank, feeling safe in the hallway leading to Aalam’s cave.
You have chosen to upgrade your class Citizen (G-Common)
Please choose from the following 526 possible upgrades.
Unlike with Aalam, every class in Mila’s list of upgrades was in Nana Xara’s information. But this wasn’t just because she wasn’t as impressive as Aalam. Nana Xara had purposefully gathered information about the types of classes Mila was suited for back when she’d been alive, and that was one of the reasons the woman had taken Mila in as an apprentice in the first place.
To Mila’s excitement, she’d even qualified for a grand total of 9 Heroic grade classes, and the first was the advancement of Diabolical Trickster.
Advanced Diabolical Trickster (F-Heroic)
You are an exceptional cheat, one who no one should make a contract with
Effects:
Markedly increase the power of disguise category skills
Markedly increase the power of all bonds and contracts you enter into or for which you provide the magic
Greatly decrease the penalties for creating bonds and contracts with those under magical influence
Skill slots:
6
May not learn skills of the following categories:
NA
Stat bonuses per level:
Strength: 12
Agility: 16
Endurance: 16
Toughness: 12
Vitality: 12
Perception: 16
Magic: 32
Spirit: 32
Soul: 32
Aura: 0
Attunement: 0
Luck: 0
Requirements:
2 high grade Law Eggs of the light and darkness elements aligned with the paths of illusion and shadow, 2 or more divine role Law Eggs at middle grade or higher, the Devil’s Contract (G-Legendary) skill, Soul greater than 144, has tricked someone out of at least a large amount of treasure for a G rank or has had 72 F rank or higher beings die as a result of breaking a contract
Given her trickery to steal from Prince Morin Daal, she qualified, but the plan of her build required the Legendary grade version of the class to allow for a future class merger, so she couldn’t choose Advanced Diabolical Trickster.
She was going to have two classes, however, so it wouldn’t be bad to get a specialized Heroic grade class as her second.
Advanced Shadow Enhancer (F-Heroic)
You are an exceptional controller of artifacts and shadow
Effects:
Increase the effectiveness of the Endurance, Magic, and Spirit stats by 25%
Raise affinity with darkness element Laws by 100%
Greatly increase the power of triforce category enhancement skills
Skill slots:
6
May not learn skills of the following categories:
Light
Soul
Stat bonuses per level:
Strength: 12
Agility: 12
Endurance: 32
Toughness: 12
Vitality: 18
Perception: 12
Magic: 32
Spirit: 32
Soul: 18
Aura: 0
Attunement: 0
Luck: 0
Requirements:
Peak grade Law Egg of the darkness element on the path of shadow, the Artifact Enhancement (G-Legendary) skill, Endurance greater than 144, Magic greater than 144, Spirit greater than 144, has killed over 72 beings one rank higher or greater using an enhanced artifact
Advanced Shadow Enhancer was the only Heroic grade class option which made use of her peak grade Law Egg, the other Heroic grade classes mostly making use of her having multiple high grade Law Eggs instead, but classes of the enhancer line made up most of her choices. These included Advanced Fire and Ice Enhancer, Advanced Light and Dark Enhancer, Advanced Life and Death Enhancer, Advanced Yin Enhancer, and Advanced Yang Enhancer.
The most powerful of all the advanced enhancer Heroic grade class options, however, was Advanced Yin Yang Enhancer.
Advanced Yin Yang Enhancer (F-Heroic)
You are an exceptional controller of artifacts, yin, and yang
Effects:
Increase the effectiveness of the Endurance, Magic, and Spirit stats by 50%
Raise affinity with fire, water, light, darkness, life, and death element Laws by 100%
Greatly increase the power of triforce category enhancement skills
Skill slots:
6
May not learn skills of the following categories:
Soul
Stat bonuses per level:
Strength: 12
Agility: 12
Endurance: 32
Toughness: 12
Vitality: 18
Perception: 12
Magic: 32
Spirit: 32
Soul: 18
Aura: 0
Attunement: 0
Luck: 0
Requirements:
High grade Law Eggs of the fire, water, light, darkness, life, and death elements, the Artifact Enhancement (G-Legendary) skill, Endurance greater than 144, Magic greater than 144, Spirit greater than 144, has killed over 72 beings one rank higher or greater using an enhanced artifact
It gave double the bonus to Endurance, Magic, and Spirit, as well as raising affinity with all her Laws instead of only a subset, so it was objectively the best class she had access to, but Mila was a bit frustrated.
She’d been hoping to get some assassin classes, but her skills weren’t right for them, and high grade combat classes were obviously a bad trap to fall into. Beyond the issues of advancing stats and Laws, the advancement criteria for the highest grades of combat classes would likely have her needing to kill gods as a B rank at least, something which was almost impossible.
Her build path as a trickster would also later need the advancements of her Artifact Enhancement skill, so she couldn’t choose any class which required the skill if she wanted her first path to work.
This then sadly left only the last Heroic grade class, one she actively hated the idea of, as an actual option.
Essence Chamberlain (F-Heroic)
You follow your master, and in turn gain a semblance of his might
Effects:
Your master decides your skill slot usage for this class
Your master may use any of your skills in this class for his own skill fusions
Free skill slots can be temporarily filled with a shadow of any skill your master has
Gain half the effects your master gains through classes, your master’s choice
Stat growth equivalent to your master’s stat growth from classes
Skill limitations the same as your master’s most powerful class
If your master dies or you lose your position, you lose this class
Skill slots:
6
May not learn skills of the following categories:
??
Stat bonuses per level:
Strength: ??
Agility: ??
Endurance: ??
Toughness: ??
Vitality: ??
Perception: ??
Magic: ??
Spirit: ??
Soul: ??
Aura: ??
Attunement: ??
Luck: ??
Requirements:
The Prime Servitor (Mythic) bloodline, the Exemplary Servitor (G-Legendary) skill, has the status of chamberlain to a master with a Heroic grade F rank class, has the same race as her master, has the same basic soulstructures as her master
It was quite obviously the class Aalam would like her to pick and she qualified for the last requirement of the class as it didn’t take into account extra soulstructures gained through skills or abilities, like Aalam’s extra Mental Forges or his new Soul Storage, but it was also objectively weaker than the other Heroic grade class options.
First, given Aalam’s classes, her stat bonuses per level from the class would be between a Heroic grade and a Legendary grade class instead of that of a full Heroic grade class, as the class’s stat growth was based on Aalam’s total stat growth from classes, half the normal growth from each of his classes, and not the stat growth which would have been granted by his Heavenly Spark Psycrafter Lord class alone.
Second, instead of getting a full Heroic grade class’s effects, she’d get half the effects from a particularly powerful Heroic grade class and half the effects from a relatively rare Legendary class. It was close to that of a full Heroic grade class, but not quite there.
Finally, Aalam would choose her skills instead of her, and she just didn’t like that.
It wasn’t like she couldn’t see the benefits from the class, however.
First and foremost, she could gain shadows of Aalam’s skills. These shadows would be fully functional skills. She just wouldn’t be able to advance them herself, the mastery instead dependent on Aalam’s mastery of the main version of the skill. And she herself would never be able to qualify for a skill like Advanced Multi-Mind, while Telekinesis would be incredibly useful, so this benefit was huge.
Second, while the stat growth and effects were weaker than a normal Heroic grade class at F rank, that wouldn’t be the case after a couple advancements. Aalam was definitely planning on upgrading their races to have something even better than advanced dual classes in the future, and the very nature of the sage line part of his build was all about upgrading his soul to allow for even more classes. If everything went to plan, by D rank, when the Essence Chamberlain class would be upgraded to Mythic grade, it would provide even more benefits than the Mythic upgrade of Aalam’s Heavenly Spark Psycrafter Lord class, and every rank after would have the difference only increase.
Finally, she didn’t have to do anything to manage the upgrade requirements of the class other than help Aalam as she already intended. And, if something happened to her relationship with Aalam, she’d just lose the class and get to choose another.
Honestly, the class’s issues were pretty minor given Aalam’s inability to not optimize, and the only thing really holding her back was her pride.
Had she not had the Shadow Princess uniqueness, things might be different, as the whole master servant thing would actually be real, but, with it, she probably had more control over Aalam than he had over her. Given his choice of sage class, he probably needed the extra skill slots provided by her taking the Essence Chamberlain class for some insane skill mergers, and that gave her leverage if she ever truly needed it.
Resigned, Mila first looked at what she’d been planning all along to be her first class.
Diabolical Trickster (F-Legendary)
You are a cheat, one who no one should make a contract with
Effects:
Increase the power of disguise category skills
Increase the power of all bonds and contracts you enter into or for which you provide the magic
Markedly decrease the penalties for creating bonds and contracts with those under magical influence
Skill slots:
6
May not learn skills of the following categories:
NA
Stat bonuses per level:
Strength: 8
Agility: 12
Endurance: 12
Toughness: 8
Vitality: 8
Perception: 12
Magic: 28
Spirit: 28
Soul: 28
Aura: 0
Attunement: 0
Luck: 0
Requirements:
2 middle grade Law Eggs of the light and darkness elements aligned with the paths of illusion and shadow, 2 or more divine role Law Eggs at early grade or higher, the Devil’s Contract (G-Legendary) skill, Soul greater than 72, has tricked someone out of at least a medium amount of treasure for a G rank or had 12 F rank or higher beings die as a result of breaking a contract
She then looked over all the other classes she qualified for, wanting to better understand her own accomplishments, before taking Diabolical Trickster (F-Legendary) as her main class and Essence Chamberlain (F-Heroic) as her second.
Her whole body started to itch and then she passed out, waking up almost a half day later to some new System messages.
You have gained the Diabolical Trickster (F-Legendary) class.
As part of your class upgrade, you have gained the Trickster’s Guise (F-Legendary) skill
Trickster’s Guise (F-Legendary) Triforce, Trickster, Disguise
Use the power of qi to physically change your appearance, magic to hide your form in illusion, and/or psyforce to trick the minds of others.
It was an extremely flexible disguise skill, combining the effects of the three main types of disguise skills, and, as a result, like Artifact Enhancement, it had the triforce category keyword, meaning it could use all three resource types.
You have gained the Essence Chamberlain (F-Heroic) class.
Your master has chosen the effects of your class to be the following:
Increase the effectiveness of the Aura and Attunement stats by 50%
Raise affinity with all Laws by 100%
Increase the effectiveness of all stats by 6.25%
Increase the speed of mastering skills by 100%
It seemed the free skill merging effects of Void Sage were more valuable than she thought, or maybe her new class just rounded up when allowed to choose half the effects of Aalam’s classes, as Mila was pleasantly surprised to gain the other two abilities from the Void Sage class, which were far more useful for her.
As part of your class upgrade, Exemplary Servitor (G-Legendary) has upgraded to Exemplary Chamberlain (F-Heroic)
Exemplary Chamberlain (F-Heroic) Soul, Humble, Contract
You are not just anyone under your lord. You are his confidant and the one he allows to control his assets.
Aalam had received similar notifications upon gaining his classes, and for all three of his skills, but Mila didn’t mind. She didn’t want her other two skills to increase in grade yet, as it would cut off her path, and Exemplary Chamberlain itself was incredibly useful.
Aalam’s Lord skill had advanced to Soul Lord, and that upgrade allowed for his direct subordinates to gain boons based on one or more of his abilities, currently only Heavenly Spark Pure Soul. Mila gaining Exemplary Chamberlain to match greatly boosted the strength of their bond, allowing them to feel each other’s emotions if both sides allowed, and it enhanced the previous effects as well, but the largest benefit to Mila was that she would receive a boon of twice the strength compared to Aalam’s other subordinates, effectively gaining the full Heavenly Spark Pure Soul racial ability for free.
As part of your class upgrade, your master was able to choose from a variety of skills based on your Laws, and has chosen the Life Death Detection (F-Legendary) skill for you
Life Death Detection (F-Legendary) Magic, Detection, Life, Death
You gain a sixth sense allowing you to know the health of living things
It was obviously a skill Aalam wanted to use for skill fusion in the future, but it was pretty useful for Mila by itself, as it would allow her to know the health of anyone she saw or detected with her aura. It was also, from a brief consultation with Nana Xara, incredibly rare, the other skills Aalam needed for fusion likely much more common.
The upgrades done, Mila then chose two of Aalam’s skills to shadow, Advanced Multi-Mind and Telekinesis, knocking herself out again.
When she woke up, there were five of her inside her soul. Two were stupid, but she had three fully working minds and it felt extremely weird. Unlike from Aalam’s instance of the skill, they didn’t also come with enhanced multi-processing and faster thinking speed, as she didn’t have any abilities or class effects which boosted psychic skills, but there were still three of her with two idiots on top.
She could think about five different things at once, learn from different sources, focus on different senses. It was extremely overpowered.
One of her intelligent minds she left to control her body. Another focused on her bond with the Twin Dragons to learn from the legacies it contained. Then the third started to ponder on her Law Eggs of Bonds and Severing, her needing to advance both past Law Egg state if she wanted to fake herself as a native. Finally, she left one of her two dumber minds to monitor her existing bonds for irregularities and the other to focus on the extra senses she’d gained from her third eye, which she’d yet to master.
Then she took a quick look at her status, with the settings changed slightly so all her various boosts to her stats could be seen at once.
Name: Li Mila
Level: 1
Race: Strong Soul Succubus Princess (F-Epic)
Bloodline: Prime Servitor (Mythic)
Abilities
Omniglot Reader (Legendary)
Fairy Law (Legendary)
Master of Disguise (Heroic)
Class 1: Diabolical Trickster (F-Legendary)
Skills
Artifact Enhancement (F-Legendary) 0% mastered
Devil’s Contract (F-Legendary) 0% mastered
Trickster’s Guise (F-Legendary) 0% mastered
Class 2: Essence Chamberlain (F-Heroic)
Skills
Exemplary Chamberlain (F-Heroic) 0% mastered
Life Death Detection (F-Legendary) 0% mastered
Advanced Multi-Mind (F-Heroic) [shadow]
Telekinesis (F-Heroic) [shadow]
Laws
Law Eggs:
Obfuscation - Peak
Hologram - High
Calm - High
Rage - High
The Healer - High
The Reaper - High
Bonds - High
Severing - High
Stats
Strength: 165 (+6.25%)
Agility: 175 (+6.25%)
Endurance: 169 (+6.25%)
Toughness: 165 (+6.25%)
Vitality: 167 (+6.25%)
Perception: 180 (+106.25%)
Magic: 196 (+6.25%)
Spirit: 226 (+6.25%)
Soul: 542 (+18.75%)
Aura: 148 (+156.25%)
Attunement: 147 (+68.75%)
Luck: 144 (+6.25%)
Free Stats: 0
Soulstructures:
Lower Dantian: 1 Huge Core Container
Middle Dantian: 12 Medium + 1 Large Mana Wells
Upper Dantian: 3 Huge + 2 Small Mental Forges
Uniqueness:
Shadow Princess
Third Eye Princess
Assets:
3 D rank universal credits
1047 E rank universal credits
112,945 F rank universal credits
26 D rank undead credits
27,894 E rank undead credits
37,766,349 F rank undead credits
Boons:
Personal Chamberlain of the Heavenly Spark Soul King: Increase the effectiveness of the Soul and Attunement stats by 12.5% and raise affinity with all Laws by 25%.
When she’d advanced her race, she’d gotten a choice of 3 possible new abilities, but only one of them was Heroic grade and, as it markedly increased disguise category skills, an effect she wanted, she’d taken it.
As she stood up and headed toward the cave to talk to Aalam, she took a quick look at his status as well.
Name: Aalam Alvaro
Level: 1
Race: Strong Soul Incubus Prince (F-Epic)
Bloodline: Genetic Thief (Mythic)
Abilities
Nascent Energy Converter (Legendary)
Heavenly Spark Pure Soul (Legendary)
Soul Collector (Epic)
Class 1: Heavenly Spark Psycrafter Lord (F-Heroic)
Skills
Advanced Multi-Mind (F-Heroic) 3% mastered
Runescriber (F-Heroic) 5% mastered
Soul Lord (F-Heroic) 3% mastered
Telekinesis (F-Heroic) 4% mastered
Class 2: Void Sage (F-Legendary)
Skills
Void Sense (F-Legendary) 2% mastered
Laws
Law Eggs:
Molecular Acceleration - Peak
Plasma - Peak
Rage - High
Molecular Deceleration - Peak
Liquid - Peak
Calm - High
Inertia - Peak
Solid - Peak
Gravity - High
Gust - High
Gas - Peak
Kinetic Energy - Peak
Ionization - High
Fission - High
Fusion - Peak
Ionic Conductivity - High
Matter - Peak
Antimatter - High
Ultraviolet - High
Infrared - High
Energy Transfer - Peak
Ultraviolet Absorption - High
Infrared Absorption - High
Energy Storage - Peak
Bacteria - High
Order - Peak
Bonds - High
Asphyxiation - High
Entropy - Peak
Severing - High
Vacuum - High
3 Dimensional Geometry - High
Multi-Dimensional Geometry - Peak
Soulform Temporal Acceleration - High
Temporal Relativity - Peak
Pause - High
Stats
Strength: 256 (+6.75%)
Agility: 264 (+6.75%)
Endurance: 284 (+6.75%)
Toughness: 264 (+6.75%)
Vitality: 284 (+6.75%)
Perception: 266 (+6.75%)
Magic: 277 (+6.75%)
Spirit: 312 (+106.75%)
Soul: 809 (+19.25%)
Aura: 266 (+56.25%)
Attunement: 264 (+68.75%)
Luck: 180 (+6.25%)
Free Stats: 0
Soulstructures:
Lower Dantian: 1 Huge Core Container
Middle Dantian: 12 Medium + 1 Large Mana Wells
Upper Dantian: 3 Huge + 2 Small Mental Forges
Unique: 1 Small Soul Storage
Uniqueness:
Id
Prince
Territory:
Lord
NA
Overlord
New Raphaiya (Lord: Roland Raphaiya)
Boons:
Hunter of Sentients I: Increase the effectiveness of all base stats by 0.5%
His Attunement stat was slightly higher than his strength, but that was fine. The true rule for the Attunement stat was that the ratio of its percentage of its max value had to be lower than the same ratio for all other stats than Luck, not that its value had to be the lowest. Mila just hadn’t been able to tell before as Human Soulforms had the same max value for all stats. Strong Soul Incubus Prince, on the other hand, had a max value for Attunement quite a bit higher than Strength.
The biggest change to Aalam’s status, however, was that he now had a Boons section as well. After killing the beastman while at the same rank, Aalam had received the first of the Hunter of Sentients line of boons. The line was a unique boon for monsters, each subsequent boon requiring twice the deaths, with the deaths of 144 sentients of one rank lower equivalent to the death of someone at the same rank. No matter how strong the boon got, however, it only affected base stats—not Attunement, Aura, and Luck—and it would reset upon rank advancement, so Aalam didn’t have much interest.
As for his immense Soul stat, like her, he’d received a free 288 increase by advancing his race in the cave, but he’d also spent the last two weeks in there as well, so he’d gained a lot more. Not to mention how he gained 68 to his Soul stat each level compared to her 54.
The cave was very useful and, as she walked in and felt the energy for the first time as an F rank, she realized it was incredibly comfortable as well.
Aalam likely wouldn’t be leaving the cave for a while unless he had to and she would have liked to join him, but sadly she had things to do.
“Aalam, I’m going to leave for a while.” Mila watched as Aalam, sitting on the throne in the room, opened his eyes. “I’m going to work on conquering this planet. You should probably just focus on improving yourself.”
Aalam nodded, but then his expression changed and the confidence in his eyes suddenly disappeared. “If this was a dream, she wouldn’t leave again,” he muttered to himself, looking down at the ground, and Mila’s heart started to race.
The overpowering Spirit present in Aalam’s aura had disappeared, and he was starting to look terrified.
